- Edward Everett Hale was born on April 3, 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for As No Man Has Loved (1925), The Man Without a Country (1917) and Matinee Theatre (1955). He died on June 10, 1909 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA.
- His story, "The Man Without a Country," has been produced at least 8 times on film, as well as numerous times for other mediums: An opera of the story, also entitled "The Man Without a Country," was composed by Walter Damrosch and premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1937. A four-part dramatization was recorded in June 1947 and issued by Decca on two coupled 12" 78 rpm discs. Bing Crosby provided the narration and Frank Lovejoy portrayed Philip Nolan. On May 8, 1977, a three-act radio play was broadcast as an episode of famous radio man Himan Brown's The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater. The venerable Russell Horton performed the part of Nolan. Tom Bosley, Howard Cunningham of TV's Happy Days (1974), was host of the series. There was also a radio production in the 1950s.
- Contrary to some reports, he was not the grandfather of actor Edward Everett Horton.
- [on determination] I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something; and what I can do, that I ought to do; and what I ought to do, by the grace of God I shall do.
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